PUNCH SHOTS: Almost a perfect day for baseball

For seamheads and others, alike, Sunday's quadruple-header of MLB postseason coverage was quite a spectacle: Four games stacked into a 12-hour window, with plenty of storylines.

There were a handful of unfortunate names: No pairing was more prominent than an at-bat between Oakland outfielder Coco Crisp and Detroit reliever Phil Coke. And later, the Tigers sent out a guy named Al Albuquerque.

There were former Phillies (Hunter Pence, Raul Ibanez and Wilson Valdez among them) as well as a former Phillies farmhand (Gio Gonzalez). There were guys who drew the ire of Phillies fans (Scott Rolen and Bryce Harper) and others who were beloved (Jim Thome).

There were memories amid October's crispness, both fond (Washington playing playoff ball for the first time since 1933) and heartbreaking (like Yankees fan Jeffrey Maier snatching a home run from the glove of Tony Tarasco in 1997).

And there were moments that never came to fruition, with Stephen Strasburg reduced to spectator status.